Function Loops Releases FREE Psytrance Bass ROMpler
Function Loops released Psytrance Bass, a free bass rompler plugin for Windows and macOS. Following up on last month’s great collection of freebies, we welcome 2024 with new good ones. Function Loops has just released a free ROMpler VST for Windows and macOS called Psytrance Bass. Psytrance Bass is a multi-sampled VST instrument featuring 40 professionally [...]
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Universal’s Virgin Music Group acquires Saban Music LatinVirgin Music Group will acquire Saban Music Latin’s catalog and will also release future albums by selected Saban Music Latin’s artists
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India’s music publishing business held back by lack of copyright compliance, legal uncertainty (report)Music publishing revenues grew 2.5-fold in India in the past three years, but future growth will depend on addressing the country's copyright issues, EY says.
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Plugin Boutique Offers FREE Plugins With Any Purchase In January
Plugin Boutique offers a free copy of Harmonic Lite or Choric Quartet with any active purchase until the end of January. If you purchase any product at Plugin Boutique this month, don’t miss the opportunity to add another free plugin to your order. Let’s take a closer look at the two available gifts. Motion: Harmonic [...]
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Spotify has ‘Preferred’ music distributors. Are you using one?While it’s possible to use any one of dozens of companies to get your music on Spotify, the streamer names some distributors as “Preferred” and shares a list publically of. Continue reading
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Elvis set to return to the stage in immersive concert experience powered by AIAI has brought many exciting opportunities for artists who are no longer with us or have retired, whether that be recovering lost takes of John Lennon or reimagining ABBA performances.
Elvis Presley’s team are finally utilising this new technology to create an immersive show that will see a digital version of Presley taking to the stage, performing ‘live’ in concert.

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The show, named Elvis Evolution, is being created and developed by Layered Reality, whose previous credits include immersive shows such as The Gunpowder Plot and War Of The Worlds.
It will premiere in London, before moving on to “multiple global cities”, which are speculated to be Las Vegas, Berlin and Tokyo.
Elvis Evolution was born out of a deal between Layered Reality and Authentic Brands Group, owner of the Elvis Presley estate. As well as this, the British company has been given access to thousands of the star’s personal photos and hours of home-videos to create the new performances using AI, according to Reuters.
“The King of Rock’n’Roll is back!” says CEO of Layered Reality Andrew McGuinness in a promotional video. “In November of 2024, we are bring an Elvis immersive experience, which harnesses AI, to London and then taking it across the world.
“You’re going to go on a journey and understand what Elvis went through in his life. The end of the performance is a real crescendo where you see a life-sized Elvis in AI perform some of his biggest hits”
Layered Reality has claimed that this experience is only possible because of it’s “unique blend of technology, augmented reality, theatre, projection and multi-sensory effects”.
As well as this, the London venue will also host an after party as it’s Elvis-themed restaurant and bar.
Tickets are not yet available, but you can join the waitlist at Layered Evolution.
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Musician’s AI Handbook author Bobby Owsinki interviewed on Your Morning Coffee PodcastOn a special episode of the Your Morning Coffee Podcast, Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart have an in-depth conversation with audio engineer, producer, author, and frequent Hypebot contributor Bobby Owsinski. Continue reading
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Producers: these songs are now in the public domain and free to sampleGood things come to those who wait – and while the world counted down to welcome in the New Year, many were eagerly waiting for the clock to strike midnight to see what creative treasures were being released to the public.
At the start of every year, many pieces of art enter the public domain. Public Domain Day on 1st January marks the shift, allowing masses of old literature, music and art to be used freely without fear of copyright infringement.

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Pieces are generally unleashed into the public domain 70 years after the creator’s death, and this copyright-free existence allows the creator’s work to live on through other people’s creative feats. From musical adaptations to remix sampling, there’s no end to how people may breathe new life into old songs, books and plays.
This year, an impressive amount of iconic pieces have entered the public domain. Most notably Mickey Mouse is now free to use – albeit only his original 1928 Steamboat Willie depiction. Pooh’s lovable pal Tigger is also now free to be used by the public.
Literature lovers will be happy to hear Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence is now free to use, so keep your eyes peeled for any film or play adaptations. Film buffs will also be pleased to know Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterful The Passion Of Joan Arc is also free to use – so don’t be shocked if you see of the film’s shots cropping up in music videos, or any attempts at a remake.
Musically, Cole Porter’s heartfelt Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) from Broadway classic Paris was one of the few tracks freed from the vaults. Elsewhere, the stunning jazz duet I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields is also now free to use. Songs from Bertolt Brecht’s German musical The Threepenny Opera were also freed, including Mack The Knife and When You’re Smiling.
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Songs which have entered the public domainGood things come to those who wait – and, while the world counted down to welcome in the New Year, many were eagerly waiting for the clock to strike midnight to see what creative treasures were being released to the public.
At the start of every year, masses of pieces of art enter the public domain. Public Domain Day on 1st January marks the shift, allowing masses of old literature, music and art to be used freely without fear of copyright infringement.
Pieces are generally unleashed into the public domain 70 years after the creator’s death, and this copyright-free existence allows the creator’s work to live on through other people’s creative feats. From musical adaptations to remix sampling, there’s no end to how people may breathe new life into old songs, books and plays.
This year, an impressive amount of iconic pieces have entered the public domain. Most notably Mickey Mouse is now free to use – albeit only his original 1928 Steamboat Willie depiction. Pooh’s lovable pal Tigger is also now free to be used by the public.
Literature lovers will be happy to hear Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence is now free to use, so keep your eyes peeled for any film or play adaptations. Film buffs will also be pleased to know Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterful The Passion Of Joan Arc is also free to use – so don’t be shocked if you see of the film’s shots cropping up in music videos, or any attempts at a remake.
Musically, Cole Porter’s heartfelt Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) from Broadway classic Paris was one of the few tracks freed from the vaults. Elsewhere, the stunning jazz duet I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields is also now free to use. Songs from Bertolt Brecht’s German musical The Threepenny Opera were also freed, including Mack The Knife and When You’re Smiling.
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Tidal vs. Spotify: Which is better for independent musiciansSpotify has the biggest audience of all music streamers, but is it the “best” place for artists when it comes to payments, transparency, music discovery, fan engagement, and more? In. Continue reading
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“Don’t think, just do”: Former Giorgio Moroder collaborator says the godfather of disco was “all about the melody”In a new interview, former collaborators of ’80s disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder discuss what it’s like working for the legend himself as well as the musical philosophies behind much of his creative endeavours.

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Recalling his time in the studio with Moroder, Ross Hogarth – an engineer from the artist’s team at Oasis Studios – says one lesson he learnt was “to never lose your sense of humour in the studio ’cause any time one of us take ourselves too seriously, you lose perspective on what you’re doing.”
“He would come in, and the first thing he’d go ‘Are we working?’”
As Hogarth explains, Moroder’s mantra in the studio could be summed up with the producer’s oft-used phrase: “Don’t think, just do.”
“That was the key of it,” says Hogarth, adding that Moroder’s songwriting “was all about the melody; he didn’t write the lyrics, he wrote the melodies, and these melodies are the core of what his hit songs were all about.”
Beside him, arranger Anthony Marinelli concurs: “It was all melody driven music,” he says, citing the case of Kenny Loggins’ Meet Me Halfway, the 1987 hit written and produced by Moroder.
“[Loggins] wanted to change the chords and so Giorgio just said ‘get on the phone with him. I’m not sure what he’s talking about, but make the chords work.’ And by then I kind of knew what he meant by ‘make the chords work’, which was: don’t mess with the melody — do the chords he wants but don’t let him mess with the melody too much.”
“Most of the great writers I learnt stay away from writing too much on an instrument. They just hear the melody and then everything else kind of comes from that,” Marinelli concludes.
Elsewhere in the chat, the pair also talks about Moroder’s love for reverb on, well, pretty much everything including hi-hats, kicks, and bass: “With Giorgio we put a ton of reverb,” says Hogarth.
Check out the full conversation below.

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UK’s music streaming market hit record high in 2023, per report by British trade bodyThe British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has published its 2023 report on music consumption, with the results showing a ninth consecutive annual rise in the UK’s consumption of recorded music.

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According to the report, the UK’s streaming market hit another record high last year with 179.6 billion audio streams accumulated across the 12 months – a 12.8 percent increase from the previous year and nearly double the total achieved five years earlier.
Streaming now accounts for 87.7 percent of the UK music market, compared to 63.6 percent in 2018.
Meanwhile, overall music consumption – with sales and streams combined – increased by 10 percent to 182.8 million albums (or their equivalent) in 2023.
Notably, data revealed that female artists fueled the growth in streaming consumption, having spent a record-breaking 31 out of 52 weeks at No.1 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart in 2023 – the highest since the charts launched in 1952.
Leading the way is Miley Cyrus’s Flowers, which topped the charts for 10 weeks; the song also proved to be the year’s biggest hit, clocking in at a whopping 198 million streams.
In addition, nearly half (48.5 percent) of the tracks that reached the Top 10 of the weekly Official Singles Chart last year were by women, either solo or in collaboration with other artists. This represented their highest annual share of Top 10 hits this century.
“Whilst work continues towards achieving full representation for women across the music industry, 2023 has been a brilliant year for women in the Official Charts,” BPI Chief Executive Dr Jo Twist OBE says of the achievement.
“Women spent more weeks at No.1 on the Official Singles Chart than in any previous year, while seven of the ten biggest tracks were by women. This should be celebrated, but without complacency, and our work in the music industry continues to ensure that this becomes the norm.”
Read the full report at BPI’s website.
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Sonible smart:EQ 4 now available smart:EQ 4 is capable of applying processing across multiple tracks from a single window to quickly tackle frequency masking issues.

Recent Classical Highlights for December 2023We're catching up on some Grammy nominees and, of course, there were the holiday music releases, but along with all of those are some stand-out performances worth sampling. French mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre recorded a wide-ranging program of love songs. Speaking of French music, Xavier Phillips (pictured) and Cédric Tiberghien collaborated to cover all of Fauré's music for cello. Two other noteworthy new releases cover music by Arvo Pärt, one by Cappella Romana and one by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Enjoy!

Twitch attire policy update shuts down the viral topless metaTwitch is effectively banning the “topless meta” and other implied nudity streams with another update to its attire policy. Under the new policy, announced on Wednesday, streamers are no longer permitted to “imply or suggest that they are fully or partially nude,” and may not show a visible outline of their genitals, even if they’re […]
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